single linux box on dsl?

[Jeremy Brown]

Satish Balay wrote:

>On Thu, 13 May 2004, Jeremy Brown wrote:
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>>Guy Fraser wrote:
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>>>So if you want to forward X through ssh, do you have to enable TCP?
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>>I would imagine so, as to my knowledge SSH only does TCP/IP forwarding.
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>This is incorrect. ssh doesn't require tcp-enabled X server. It does
>the Xforwarding (within the ssh connection which is tcp) - and locally
>talks with the Xserver via unix sockets.
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>for eg: after 'ssh remote-machine xterm' - I get:
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># netstat -p |grep ssh
>unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     127201 912/ssh             
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D'oh!  Guess I'm eatin' it this time...

Jeremy